Bonus for new members!
Be one of the next 50 to join the MACPA's Tomorrow's CPA program and receive a one-year subscription to the Baltimore Business Journal or Washington Business Journal — absolutely free! These papers are your weekly guide to news, views and who's who in the Maryland marketplace. Sign up for your free TCPA membership and a chance to receive a free, one-year BBJ or WBJ subscription today at www.tomorrowscpa.org/peers/studentapp.html. This offer is for new members only.
TCPA members win AICPA scholarships
TCPA members Paul Bazzano of Salisbury State University and Jermain Mountain of Towson University have won 2003 AICPA scholarships for minority accounting students. They are among 154 winners nationwide. Congratulations to Paul, Jermain and your schools!
CPAs just love the work
A new Career Insider study shows the "best" and "worst" parts of the job for CPAs. They like the hours, the colleagues, the pay and, most of all, the intellectual challenge.
www.cpa2biz.com/Career/Go+Figure.htm
Exam update
The computerized CPA exam is only months away. Get details here.
www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/
sep2003/special.htm
Use IT or Lose IT
A recent article says companies who do not align big-ticket financial systems with strategic objectives and fail to capitalize on IT implementations lose out. In fact, many companies invest in sophisticated financial software packages that are not used at all. Read the full article here.
www.businessfinancemag.com/archives/appfiles/
Article.cfm?IssueID=378&ArticleID=13993&TF=Y
Buying books online
This Web site allows students to shop for textbooks and compare prices.
navisite.collegeclub.com/servlet/
channels.ChannelArticleServlet?areaid=25&articleid=4549
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Join an army of auditors
The U.S. Army Audit Agency (USAAA) will be at Towson University's Fall Career Fair on Oct. 1 from 2:30 - 5:30 p.m. For information about job opportunities, go to www.hqda.army.mil.
Towson U. grads best in the East on CPA exam
Towson University is the top-ranked school in the East for students passing the November 2002 CPA exam — and seventh overall in the nation — with 38.1 percent of its graduates passing the exam on their first attempt. Nationally, the average was 19 percent in 2002.
Free to TCPA members
The impact of the year-old Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other issues of importance to the profession will take center stage during a series of MACPA town hall meetings throughout Maryland ... and all TCPA members are invited! It's a great opportunity to learn and network with real CPAs. Visit the MACPA Web site for the meeting nearest you.
www.macpa.org/headlines/2003/
meetings81403.htm
Big TCPA discount on exam prep course!
Attention all TCPA members! Enroll in Yaeger Lambers CPA Review and receive a $300 tuition discount on our entire LIVE CPA Review course. Shop online for a CPA exam review course and use your TCPA membership to get a big discount. Get details at www.tomorrowscpa.org/members/cpareview.html.
Can't wait to take the computerized CPA exam? Then don't!
Loyola College in Maryland and the American Institute of CPAs invite qualified students and recent accounting graduates to participate in a "pre-testing" of the new computerized CPA exam at the college's Timonium Graduate Center. For more information and to sign up, go to sellinger.loyola.edu/article.cfm?id=166
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